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Thanks, you guys are awesome.

Guys, can someone please help me, I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the lack of clear information about XCOM and it's patches. I have a bought PC CD version of XCOM which apparently I have to play through Steam. Where do I download the patch? Has Steam done it for me automatically already? Is there any clear way to tell? And how do I use/activate the "Chris Kluwe as XCOM Hero unlock"? I don't know if it's just me being old, out of touch and stupid, but I can seem to find any answers to these questions. Can someone please help.

Thanks for the update. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that it all works out for them in the end. Thanks.

Bump. Any more news on this game? I was really looking forward to this one. Hope it hasn't been cancelled.

WOW! Finally what we have all been waiting for and dreaming of! I haven't been this excited since losing my virginity! Let's hope this excitement last a little bit longer than that did!

I don't hear anyone bitching about how poor JA2 was/is. People still singing it's praises today - 13 or so years later. The same with X-Com. People are bitching today because some of these brand new games are nowhere near up to the standard of gameplay which was achieved almost 20 years ago. The only thing improved in most cases are the graphics, and for me personally graphics are the least important part of my enjoyment of a game. I would rather play Rebelstar from 1986 than play either of these two new so called JA games, and I really mean that.

Don't let me put you off trying it. Give it a go and make your own minds up. I found the controls/ user interface on JA - Back in Action too cumbersome and difficult to be fun. I found JA online to be too dumbed down and simplified to be fun for me. If felt more like playing Farmville than playing a Jagged Alliance game.

I thought that as well. I hate to keep being negative, but how wrong I was. This is as bad as JA - Back in Action, but for very different reasons.

Cool! I loved Cannon Fodder back in the days of the Amiga. I don't like buying game downloads anymore though. Steam has put me right off that. I can't remember now, is Gamersgate anything like Steam where you have to download horrible intrusive softwear just to play your game, or is it a nice clean game download free from any unwanted extras?

I thank you for sharing your opinion. You were a lot more patient and tolerant than me. I tend to make quick decisions on my initial gut feeling. These are usually the correct decisions for me, and my initial gut feeling told me that I would not enjoy playing this game however much I tried to persevere. I'm putting all my gaming eggs in the new XCOM basket now and praying the same thing wont happen.

Yeah I think the higher the rank of the person killed, the more damage it did to everyone's morale. It made good sense.

I finally got around to playing this demo last night and I'm sad to say I'm very disappointed. It looked great on the screenshots, but unfortunately the controls and user interface just feels slow, awkward and cumbersome to me. First I tried to jump straight in without playing the tutorial, but couldn't do anything so had to quit to play the tutorial. I think a good design of controls should enable a player to be able to jump straight in without needing a tutorial. Anyway, the tutorial was far from being fun andf the whole thing just felt like a chore. It was late and maybe I was being impatient, but I quit the tutorial and called it a day in the hospital after my guys firstly couldn't find their own way down the ladder, then mysteriously became injured, and then magically healed again before I actually had the chance to practice healing them. The whole thing just felt annoying which is a sad thing for a huge JA2 fan to have to say. Edit: I forgot to add, the characters sadly seemed to be lacking a certain amount of "character" too.

I agree the graphics style does look like Aftershock, but I think that's a good thing because I liked the style of Aftershock. Oh NO PLEASE don't make us have to use Steam. I hate Steam enough for it to be the only thing which would stop me buying/playing this game.

I didn't like the look of the side split view of the base at first, but hearing about how it's interactive and you get to watch your actual guys wandering around at work, rest or play it sounds good. I like the idea of digging deeper underground too. Imagine if you dug too deep and hit water, causing it to flood your base with Gillmen or aliens from Terror from the Deep... Ok, maybe I've gone too far.

Iron man mode! Get in! I think this is going to be awesome! The more I hear about how and why changes have been made from the original, the more I understand their way of thinking and am starting to believe these changes are for the best.